Bill Konigsberg
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It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
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Openly straight volume 1
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Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
3) The bridge
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Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Suicide Prevention Month - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Suicide Prevention Month - Young Adults
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Aaron and Tillie do not know each other, but they both feel suicidal and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth.
4) Honestly Ben
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Openly straight volume 2
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Ben Carver returns for the spring semester at the exclusive Natick School in Massachusetts determined to put his relationship with Rafe Goldberg behind him and concentrate on his grades and the award that'll mean a full scholarship--but Rafe's still there, there's a girl named Hannah whom he meets in the library, and behind it all is his relationship with his distant but demanding father.
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Seventeen-year-old Carson Smith is bored with Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who's run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
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From Stonewall Award winner Bill Konigsberg, a remarkable, funny, sexy, heartbreaking story of two teen boys finding each other in New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
The first thing I noticed about C.J. Gorman was his plexiglass bra.
So begins Destination Unknown -- it's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is. C.J. isn't just out -- he's completely out...
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SINCERAMENTE BEN, LA SECUELA DE ABIERTAMENTE HETERO.
Tras las vacaciones de Navidad, Ben regresa al internado Natick e intenta hacer vida normal. Todo parece ir bien: acaban de elegirlo capitán del equipo de béisbol, le han dado una beca, conoce a una chica interesante y, sobre todo, está convencido de que ha dejado atrás lo que sucedió con Rafe.
Sin embargo, la presión por ser perfecto empieza a hacer mella en él. Además, su familia tiene...
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PARA TODO EL QUE HAYA DESEADO QUE ALGUIEN TE VEA, TE COMPRENDA Y TE QUIERA TAL Y COMO ERES...
Rafe tiene pensado pasar las vacaciones de Navidad en su casa de Colorado, lamentándose por lo que casi ocurre pero no ocurrió con Ben; pero su mejor amiga, Claire Olivia, tiene planes para él. Mientras tanto, Ben está pasando las Navidades en la granja de su familia en Nuevo Hampshire, y no se siente precisamente feliz.
Un relato solo en formato digital...
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Max und Jordan haben nicht viel miteinander zu tun. Während Max Sport und Videospiele liebt und gern mit seinen Jungs abhängt, ist Jordan eher introvertiert, schreibt Gedichte und trifft sich mit seinen beiden besten Freundinnen in der Mall. Erst, als sie gemeinsam im alten Food-Truck von Jordans Vater arbeiten, lernen sie sich besser kennen. Und ganz langsam merken die beiden, dass zwischen ihnen vielleicht mehr ist als bloß Freundschaft ...
